We want to buy the latest shiny piece of tech, the hottest trend, or newest game. We look to what others are doing to help us make a decision -- but some shoppers have no idea what products are popular with other consumers. If you can track what your customers are interested in, you can encourage them to buy your product by creating a sense of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out).

But capturing what other casual browsers are interested in a given product has been hard for marketers.

By showing a casual shopper how many other visitors are viewing the same item in real time, you can encourage FOMO.

The Yieldify product can shows the number of other shoppers on a notification in the corner of the screen, or prominently in a full overlay on the web site.

Yieldify will enable e-commerce marketers to deliver simple onsite messages which are triggered by visitor behavior on the site. The message you display on your site can dynamically change based on how many visitors have been browsing that particular item.

The more popular a product seems, the stronger the sense of urgency a customer will feel to have it for fear that they will be missing out if they do not buy. This delivers the social proof that the product a customer is looking for is really popular, and encourages them to quickly make that purchase. Creating a sense of FOMO will get them to act.

Yieldify says that its Dynamic Social Proof campaigns are easy to create on the platform, requiring no coding or additional integrations. An integrated JavaScript tag lets customers design campaigns.

Marketers need to understand the drivers behind every online interaction and make them work for both the business and customer. If product discounts do not always work, the marketer needs to become smarter -- with whatever tools they can.

In today's social media driven society, an internet meme or online trend can explode in popularity overnight. (Remember the Ice Bucket challenge?) But why do some online trends take the world by storm before disappearing just as quickly as they arrive, and why do we share them?

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